Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

    ““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Wheeled swiftly, wings emerge from larval-silver hangars.
    Taut motors surge, space-gnawing, into flight;”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Dear friend,
    I will have to sink with hundreds of others
    on a dumbwaiter into hell.
    I will be a light thing.
    I will enter death
    like someone’s lost optical lens.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)